From the Editor's Desk: Quick hits ...

It's kind of a dreary winter morning here today. (On the other hand, it's Florida and I'm wearing shorts and a T-shirt. So maybe not so dreary.) Regardless, maybe let's just keep things short with some quick hits, shall we?

This past week marked six years of doing this job full-time. Thanks to everyone for putting up with me for this long. (Good thing, too, cause I'm not planning on going anywhere.)

I'm still on the Nexus 6P, and kinda missing the ease of Samsung Pay (thanks to the MST stuff). Too many places have those terminals that make it hard to tell if they take contactless payments. LoopPay was a great buy for Samsung.

Congrats Phil on 6 years at AC! I joined AC in November 2008 or at least Crackberry and then came Android Central. I also visit imore, but they must not have the same number of members cause it is pretty dead over there . I also miss Samsung Pay when using my 6P. I have not even set up android pay on my 6P since I have a google wallet card. Hands down, Samsung Pay is the most complete solution. Can't wait for Star Wars either! My kids are excited too! Not sure how they got into it...

I think all phones selling as new should be required to have the latest operating system, no matter what.
Google should jam that down the manufacturers' throats.
It's far past time to stop the OS fragmentation.

Thanks for the wrap up. On weeks like this it is more difficult for all of us to do our jobs as normal. For this reason your summary of the week is actually a nice diversion from all the other sad news out there.